Theatre review: An Indigenous Trilogy, La Mama

ARTS HUB, 29 NOVEMBER 2022

When seeking understanding between cultures, it’s important to start with the voice of cultures you’re trying to understand. Three plays by Glenn Shea create a bold point of entry to a history that stretches back to the dawn of civilisation, but in the past 200 years has been a story of dispossession, distrust and disempowerment. These plays have been recognised by the RE Ross Trust and fit into the Indigenous Gothic genre famed for plays like Wesley Enoch’s Black Medea.

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GOTHIC ARCHETYPES TWIST THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS AFFECTING AND CONFRONTING THEATRE TRILOGY

THE AGE, 13 NOVEMBER 2022

With the death of their adoptive mother, Peter and his foster siblings Camille (Payne) and Matthew (Brodie Murray) - a sex worker and a gay man about to get married-return home to face festering family secrets. Through desert roadtrip and claustrophobic ghost story, the cruelty they endured in childhood is revealed. Aboriginal language and ceremony haunt the eerie reunion, as Peter confronts the desperate deed he committed as a child.

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AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY - ACT TWO: MASTERPIECE

STAGE WHISPERS, 15 NOVEMBER 2022

Shea has meticulously crafted a dichotomy of two differing spiritual and material worlds that collide and fracture. The initial bonding between Peter and Hope is strikingly moving; with similar and contrasting monologues, paced, and punctuated with light and sound, providing stunning dramatic tension that unites two people, a generation apart.

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